"For love or money" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there is not much to tell you. Janter has thrown up the farm after all, and George says that there is not another tenant to be had for love or money. He tried one man, who said that he would not have it at five shillings an acre, as ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... paid yearly in this town for such a roof as that? I do not know; but I know of another roof at Goudhurst, in Kent, which would have cost me less than L100 a year, only I could not get it for love or money. ...
— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc
... he shouted. "This means the biggest strike the West has ever seen! You won't get men for love or money—" ...
— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
... side winks to one another to see what he would do to overcome the water difficulty. 'Pumps' would of course have been the simple answer, but the men knew as well as the Subaltern knew that pumps were not to be had at that particular time and place for love or money, and that all the filling of all the 'indents' in the R.E. would not produce one single ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... promised never to betray her confidence, and the mare continued: 'Ask nothing else as a reward than my foal, for it has not its like in the world, and is not to be bought for love or money; for it can go from one end of the earth to another in a few minutes. Of course the cunning Corva will do her best to dissuade you from taking the foal, and will tell you that it is both idle and sickly; but do not believe her, and stick ...
— The Yellow Fairy Book • Various
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